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[compirate]

Anyway, as much as I'd like one, they're a bit of an overkill for a simple slot. Just mount the box between a couple of blocks of wood, so you can slide the box from left to right along the axis of the slot and use a small milling tool in a drill press. You might scrap a couple of boxes getting everything set up right, but that'll be a lot cheaper than a CNC.

They do have some pretty cool software for prototyping circuit boards too.

PCB-GCode Phorum

[daverob]

So... I stopped by a palour and looked for the animation just to confirm and it seems like there are a few variations. The one I saw was:...

You stopped by a parlour, just for me. I guess I owe you expenses now , or did we win.

I think I'll stick with your original animation, mainly because I've already started on the code to display it, and it's quite complicated getting it to display right without using up quite a lot of memory (remember I only have 2k to fit everything into). If I have time I might add some more animated transitions and allow the user to select them in the set-up mode, but I've got more important features to work on right now.

They do have some pretty cool software for prototyping circuit boards too.

I've already got a few hundred dollars worth of photo-etch equipment for making PCBs, and I think that dipping a bit of copper covered board into a hot bubbling tank of brown liquid, while wearing a stained white lab coat, gives a much more authentic 'mad scientist' look. When you compare that to simply standing around waiting for a CNC engraver to do it's job, even the addition of the geeky safety glasses isn't enough to get the image quite right.